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Mar 06, 2017 Grim Dawn. All Discussions. Is there any cool caster build that uses lightning or frost as primary dmg? Showing 1-15 of 19 comments. It's 2 skills freeze them, then bomb them are more advance builds if you play occultist ect. Mar 6, 2017 @ 7:29am Originally posted. Follow Grim Dawn on Facebook to receive updates and help us spread the good word by spamming all your friends! Visit the official community-driven wiki for information on Grim Dawn’s classes, quests, characters and more! Feb 29, 2020 If your answer is yes, then you are in the right place. This is one of the laziest, easiest builds in existence and you can do absolutely everything ingame with it, including killing Celestials or Farming the Crucible. It is also 100% Hardcore Viable. Note: Requires both AshesofMalmouth &.
More than a year after the game's official release (and following a lengthy Early Access period), we're finally getting an actual real expansion to Grim Dawnthat adds more than just a new combat mode.
In addition to the game's storyline moving forward with two, full new chapters in Ashes Of Malmouth, the level and devotion caps have both been increased, offering new build opportunities with extra skills and constellations.
We've previously looked at some of the best builds available in Grim Dawn, but it may be time to revise that category as two whole new mastery classes have arrived: the Necromancer and Inquisitor!
Grim Dawn Necromancer Builds
Here, we're going to take a look at some of the undead mayhem that can be unleashed with killer Necro builds across the base game or in the expansion areas.
It should come as no surprise that the Necromancer is primarily a pet-focused build, with the main ability to summon several skeletons at once that can be upgraded over time. It's like being back in the glory days of Diablo 2 all over again!
Your pick for the second class will determine how the class plays and whether you want to go full steam ahead into summoning mastery or augment that ability with other power.
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Necromancer + Soldier
The Deathknight (Necromancer + Soldier) seems like the most obvious mastery combination, but sadly, this doesn't have the synergy you'd expect.
Other than the ability to intermittently deal extra damage and heal yourself a bit with physical attacks, there's not a ton of overlap between the two classes for min/maxing purposes.
It's not a completely nonviable build by any means -- a Necromancer with tons of health and armor who can attack while using pets isn't useless -- but there are builds that work more smoothly together. More than likely, this won't be your first pick.
Necromancer + Shaman
You can get some crazy powerful builds by adding the Shaman to just about anything, and the Necromancer is no exception. Our Shaman/Necro build is all about letting other creatures do the work for you, so don't even bother getting into melee -- unless the situation has gotten dire.
On the Necro side, fully upgrade the Raise Skeletons, Undead Legions, and Will Of The Crypt branch of the skill tree. When it comes available, fully upgrade the Summon Blight Fiend, Rotting Fumes, and Blight Burst path. We want tons of skeletons and zombies, and they need to be in top shape!
Don't even bother with Reaping Strike, Drain Essence, or anything of the sort, because we aren't planning on hitting things ourselves -- that's what minions are for!
On the Shaman side, upgrade the heck out of Devouring Swarm straight away, which is essentially going to take the place of your main attack. Summon Briarthorn should be your next priority, for even more summoned pet action. Other than that, just put some points into Heart Of The Wild so you have a means to heal and buff yourself when someone gets through your summoned army.
Necromancer / Shaman Build Path
Necromancer + Demolitionist
Flaming skeletons? Yes, please! There are a lot of different ways to go about this combination, but for maximum focus we're only going to take a grand total of four Demolitionist skills.
Flame Touch and Temper on the top branch of the Demolotionist skill tree imbue allies with fire damage, and who doesn't want their undead army to be lighting everything aflame all around them? Pump these up to max as soon as you can.
From there, we jump way down to a lower branch for Flashbang and Searing Light, which will be your crowd control abilities so you can keep enemy hordes manageable while your flaming skeletons deal with them.
On the Necromancer side, anything from the middle branch on down will be helpful to you, but obviously you want Raise Skeletons and Undead Legion.
Call Of The Grave and Soul Harvest offer great extra bonuses to those flaming skeletons, and if you want some retaliation ability, Spectral Wrath isn't a bad way to go.
Necromancer / Demolitionist Build Path
Necromancer + Occultist
Yet again we're going to play to the pet summoning strengths of the Necromancer, so just like with the Necro/Shaman combo above, we'll max out the Raise Skeletons and Summon Blight Fiend skill paths.
The difference then will be on the Occultist side, where at first your focus will be on slowing and weakening enemies with Curse of Frailty and Vulnerability. While slowed and hexed, your summoned minions will make short work of the monstrous creatures trying to kill you.
When it becomes available, shift to the Summon Hellhound path for an extra pet to play with. In the later levels, make sure to use Bonds Of Bysmiel so your minions have loads of extra health!
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These are the Grim Dawn Necromancer builds we're having the most fun with since the DLC's release -- what did you think of our picks, and what combinations and skill paths do you recommend we try out?
Let us know in the comments below, and if you're just getting started with the gameand need help with this deadly post-apocalyptic ARPG, be sure to check out the rest of our Grim Dawn guides.
The sprawling grim dark fantasy ARPG Grim Dawn has seen quite a few changes both to existing masteries and loots drops in recent patches, but also with the addition of whole new masteries in the latest expansions.
With those changes in mind, its time to update our guide to the best Grim Dawn builds. If you want to take a look, our previous version of the best buildstill has some solid tips if you want to try out a Warder character, although some of that info is now outdated.
Before diving into specific mastery combos and skill load outs, first let's clarify what we mean by 'best'. Our best builds have these qualities:
Up until the release of Forgotten Gods, one of the top damage dealing classes was easily the Cabalist (Necromancer + Occultist) with a focus on pets and chaos damage. Unfortunately, the latest patches have heavily nerfed chaos damage and items that boost chaos pet damage.
While that's still a potentially viable build just for fun, we can't recommend it as an actual 'best' build anymore at this point. Instead, we're going to look at three classes focused on melee attacks, undead pet summoning, and poison / acid damage.
Ritualist (Shaman + Necromancer)
Based on personal play style preference, this is my current favorite build, although your mileage may vary if you don't care for melee combat or using a ton of pet summons.
There's a dual focus here, first on summoning creatures to keep the enemy busy, then on two handed weapon attacks with internal trauma damage. It may seem strange to have two caster classes focused on physical attacks, but trust me, it works wonders.
Internal trauma damage bypasses armor and continues dealing damage over time, making it very helpful with big tanky bosses. In terms of devotion points, Hammer gives you bonus internal trauma, while Shepherd's Crook is a must for the bonus to pets. Be sure to pick a devotion constellation tied to whatever 2 handed weapon type you end up using (Rhowan's Scepter gives a ton of internal trauma damage for maces).
The goal with this build is to always have 8 skeletons, a briarthorn, a blight fiend, and a primal spirit to thin out the enemy while you go to town with a 2 handed weapon.
Ritualist Skills
These are the preferred skills out for the Necromancer side:
These are the preferred skills for the Shaman side:
Of course there are ways to tweak the skills if you want to focus more on pets than melee attacks, as Reaping Strike and Necrotic Edge can be swapped for maxing out the Blight Fiend and Briarthorn upgrade skills instead.
So long as you buy faction items or equip items that that increase poison resistance, you'll even do very well in the harder Ashes Of Malmouth content like the Ancient Grove sealed dungeon.
There are really only two main weaknesses to pay attention to here.
First up, the only place you are really going to struggle is with Father Kymon near the end of Forgotten Gods, who will be difficult to overcome with this build on epic and ultimate modes. 5e dmg or moster manual.
Since Kymon can one shot many players with melee hits, you want to stay far away and let your pets do the work, or equip an item that gives you an extra ranged power to use while you hide in the area's entrance.
Second, while this build will see you surrounded by a horde of pets, unfortunately it doesn't have quite enough summoning potential to actually unlock the Pet Hoarder achievement.. unless you manage to find a significant number of loot drops that give you bonus summoning powers.
Dervish (Oathkeeper + Nightblade)
As a brand new mastery, the player base is still trying to figure out the best secondary class and skill load out for the Oathkeeper, and many players are convinced only Soldier or Demolitionist are viable options.
They are dead wrong (at least for the moment before any future patches).
The Oathkeeper has excellent synergy with poison and acid when paired with the Nighblade mastery. To get the most use out of this build, obviously you are going to want to equip any items that increase your overall acid damage.
In terms of devotions, make sure you pick up Rat, Eye Of The Guardian, Scorpion, Manticore, Murmur, Abomination, and Yugol The Insatiable Night for maximum acid damage output. Ghoul also works well, since it gives you some healing while attacking capability for survival.
Dervish Skills
These are the preferred skills out for the Oathkeeper side:
These are the preferred skills out for the Nightblade side:
Switching between Amastara's Blade Burst and the Righteous Fervor attacks can result in crazy damage to just about any enemy as poison and acid eat away at health. Don't forget to summon your Guardian so he can also go out and perform area burst acid attacks!
The main downside here is a lack of crit percentage, but with how much poison, acid, bleed, and internal trauma damage you will be dealing, it isn't that much of a weakness.
For maximum damage output, don't forget to grab those Dreeg-focused faction items that add in additional poison/acid damage to whatever dual wielding weapons you are using.
Conjurer (Occultist + Shaman)
A lot of the pet builds were sadly diminished with the Forgotten Gods expansion, but this one remains viable if you play it right.
A counterpoint to the Ritualist, this mastery combo is mostly about summoning creatures and letting them do the damage, while then lowering enemy resistances so your summons can tear at them with damage types like acid, cold, lightning, etc.
For devotion points, Ulzuin's Torch is a great idea that can be bound to any of your summon skills, as it eventually gives you the chance to randomly call down a high damage meteor swarm with any basic attack. Other than that, Behemoth, Jackal, and Rhowan's Crown are all critical for the bonuses to pets.
Finally, don't forget Modgrogen the Wolf, as the final star on that devotion constellation gives you Howl Of Mogrdogen for a big bonus to your pets.
Conjurer Skills
These are the preferred skills out for the Occultist side:
These are the preferred skills out for the Shaman side:
Your focus here is on getting as many pets on the screen as possible that all deal elemental damage, while you then use your Occultist abilities to lower the resistances of any enemies.
The main weakness is that your character won't be directly dealing a ton of damage, and of course you don't have a ton of defense. Just make sure to always be on the lookout for any equipment that gives pet bonuses, elemental damage bonuses, or debuffs the enemy.
Grim Dawn Soldier Occultist Build
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Want to see what builds other players have come up with? The Grim Dawn build compendium over in the game's official forums are a great place to start.
Grim Dawn Occultist Builds For Op Dmg Free
However, keep in mind that many of those builds revolve heavily around using very specific equipment, which you may not be able to get since loot is random.
Shaman Occultist Grim Dawn Build
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